Karl Ludwig von Cocceji

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Karl Ludwig von Cocceji (* 1724 ; † July 12, 1808 in Glogau , Province of Silesia ) was a Prussian senior government president of Glogau .

Life

Origin and family

Karl Ludwig von Cocceji was a member of the baronial noble family Cocceji . His parents were the Prussian Chamber Court President and Grand Chancellor , Samuel von Cocceji (1679–1755) and the daughter general Johanna Charlotte von Beschefer († after May 3, 1765).

The Prussian colonel and royal adjutant general Johann Heinrich Friedrich von Cocceji (1725–1785) and the Polish major general and envoy Carl Friedrich Ernst von Cocceji (1728–1780) were his younger brothers, the Prussian cavalry general Dubislav Friedrich von Platen (1714–1787) ) his brother-in-law.

His first marriage was on November 2, 1749 in Berlin with the ballet dancer and later Silesian landlady and Countess Barbara Campanini (1721–1799). The marriage was divorced in 1788. Baron Cocceji entered a second marriage in July 1789 in Glogau with Johanne Christiane Charlotte Schneider († 1808). She was the widow of the Prussian court and criminal councilor in Glogau, Georg Christoph Knappe. His second wife brought five children into the marriage, which at times bore his name and were raised to the Prussian nobility in 1798 based on the stepfather's coat of arms and the name of Knappe von Knappstädt .

With Baron Karl Ludwig von Cocceji, the male line of his sex has expired.

Career

Cocceji completed a law degree and began his professional life as a legation counselor in 1741. From 1745 to 1752 he was a secret expeditionary secretary and / or Geimer council at the Kurmärkischen expedition of the secret budget office in Berlin . Because of an offense, Cocceji was arrested in Spandau at the beginning of 1748 . In October of the same year he was sent to Magdeburg with Philipp Joseph von Jariges to attest to the establishment of the new judiciary. On this occasion, he received the title of Privy Councilor and was able to move to a vacant position in the Secret Council of Justice.

After the secret marriage with Barbara Campanini, who was in the highest favor of the king , there were again differences. Only an immediate application by the father and Grand Chancellor Samuel von Cocceji for a transfer for his son to Silesia was able to smooth things over a little. The king complied with the request and in 1752 appointed Cocceji President of the Upper Consistory in Glogau.

In January 1761, Cocceji and his wife received the Silesian Inkolat . In 1763 he became vice-president of the regional government in Glogau and by 1766 had already become president of the body. In the winter of 1769/1770, after the death of his mother, he briefly returned to Berlin to deal with the inheritance.

In 1780 Cocceji was proposed as a candidate for the post of Justice Minister, but the king was persistently reluctant. Nevertheless, in 1798 Cocceji received the provisional order to revise the Upper Silesian Higher Administrative Authority in Brzeg and was still regarded as a valuable president around 1800. In 1802 Cocceji celebrated his 50th anniversary of service, on which occasion Friedrich Wilhelm III. , honored with the Great Order of the Red Eagle .

Cocceji was also President of the Pupil College .

Because of the Pomeranian family estates, he had at least followed his younger brothers to Wusseken as liege lord . After him, the children of his sisters Amalie Charlotte Henriette von Cocceji (1729–1757), wed Baroness von Vernezobre de Laurieux and Sophia Susanna Charlotte von Cocceji († 1794), wed von Platen , were estate heirs.

literature

  • Christian August Ludwig Klaproth, Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: The royal Prussian and electoral Brandenburg real secret Council of State on its 200-year foundation day January 5, 1805 , Berlin 1805, p. 558.
  • Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 172 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hugo Weczerka (Ed.): Handbook of historical sites . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , pp. 132 and 192.
  2. ^ Ingeborg Kolb: The secret marriage of Barbarina , In: Mitteilungen der AG für Familiengeschte im Kulturkreis Siemens, 1959/60, p. 61.
  3. ↑ Schlesische Provinzialblätter , 1789, 10th volume, 7th volume: Julius, p. 78.
  4. ^ Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses 1911, fifth year, pp. 526-527.
  5. ↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Vorund Hinter-Pommern , Volume 2, Issue 2, Stettin 1784, p. 609.
personal data
SURNAME Cocceji, Karl Ludwig von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian senior government president in Glogau
DATE OF BIRTH 1724
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1808
Place of death Glogau , Province of Silesia